Chandrayaan-2 Landing Live Updates

Chandrayaan-2 Live: Mission is very close to 100% success: K Sivan

ISRO Chief K Sivan: In total, the Chandrayaan 2 mission is very close to 100% success. Right now the communication is lost, we will try to establish a link for the next 14 days. The last portion was not executed the right way, in that phase only we lost link with the Lander, and could not establish communication subsequently.

Chandrayaan 2 Live: Virat Kohli, members of team India and former cricketers praise ISRO for moon mission

Hailing ISRO scientists, Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli said: “There’s nothing like failure in science, we experiment and we gain. Massive respect for the scientists at ISRO who worked relentlessly over days and nights. The nation is proud of you, Jai Hind! Chandrayan2.”

Chandrayaan 2 Live: From Gaganyaan to Aditya, ISRO’s future plans

The ISRO plans to send three Indians to space by 2022, an announcement made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his last Independence Day speech. Besides this, the ISRO will also launch Aditya L-1, India’s first solar mission, by next year. There are plans to build a space station and launch interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus.

Chandrayaan 2 Live: ISRO Official on Gaganyaan

There will be absolutely no problem at all. It (Chandrayaan 2) will have no impact (on Gaganyaan). The satellite missions as well as the human space flight mission will go very smoothly without any problem. Each mission is of a different type: P G Diwakar, ISRO Official told PTI.

Chandrayaan 2 Live: No impact on Gaganyaan!

The Chandrayaan-2 mission will “absolutely have no impact” on ISRO’s ambitious manned mission Gaganyaan, scheduled to be launched in 2022, according to an ISRO official (PTI)

Chandrayaan 2 Live: ‘Only pictures from the Orbiter will reveal what actually happened’

The current status of the Chandrayaan 2 mission can only be speculated. If one or more of the retro engine(s) has malfunctioned during the descent, which led to the angle of descent and rate of descent not going as per planned parameters, in autonomous mode. It is possible that Vikram may still have landed but could get damaged/tilted. The extent of damage will decide the next course of action, if Rover may roll out and start communicating with the lander. It’s only when the pictures from the Orbitor, of the site of landing (soft or otherwise) are revealed with evidence and analysis, that we will we know what went through and what did not: Ratan Shrivastava, Independent Consultant, Aerospace, Defence & Space.

Chandrayaan 2 Live: ISRO tweets on its moon mission

Chandrayaan 2 mission was a highly complex mission, which represented a significant technological leap compared to the previous missions of ISRO to explore the unexplored south pole of the Moon: ISRO tweets.

Chandrayaan 2 Live: ‘After a moment of despondency, ISRO is back to work’

After a moment of despondency, ISRO is back to work! It is inspirational to see this characteristic of science in collective action. Kudos to ISRO: Krishnasamy Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India

History by Chandrayaan-2

India makes a history by Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. Vikram lander was about to land where no one has before on the moon but at the height of 2.1 km, ISRO lost communication from Vikram Lander. It was so close. And it was the first attempt by any country to reach the south pole. It’s not confirmed yet that Vikram lander makes soft landing or crashed landing. ISRO officially said that they will analyze data and after that they will conclude that what happened with Vikram lander.

Chandrayaan-2 Live Streaming

You can watch the live landing of Chandrayaan-2 here:

The purpose of Chandrayaan-2 is to study the mysterious moon from top to bottom, including its topography, mineralogy, exosphere, elemental abundance and even possible seismic activity. With seven instruments aboard the orbiter, three aboard the lander and a further two attached to the rover, there will be no stone left unturned.

India’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover are designed to last one lunar day (14 Earth days), though Chandrayaan-2 is expected to spend a full year studying the moon from above. The Chandrayaan-2 mission has a full cost of about 10 billion rupees (about $145 million), ISRO officials have said.